Fellow Award

Fellow of the Academy

Election as Fellow is the most prestigious honor given by the Academy. While other Academy recognitions honor members for outstanding achievement in a single area (e.g., teaching excellence, outstanding research, and distinguished service), the designation of Fellow is for a lifetime of achievement in the advancement of advertising scholarship, education, and service to the discipline. Thus, the Fellow is the Academy's broadest and most prestigious honor. The basic requirement shall be evidence of a substantial contribution to the accomplishment of the objectives stated in Article II of the Constitution, evidenced by the following accomplishments:

Principal responsibility for publication of significant contributions to advertising scholarship in recognized journals or in book form; and

Recognition of a nationally known academic or practitioner who has contributed notably to the value and importance of advertising education; and

Significant service contribution to advertising education at the college, university or professional level

The Fellows

Charles Allen - Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech University; He was the first Chairman of the AAA Research Committee and conducted two of the earliest studies on advertising education.Arnold Barban - Professor and Head of Advertising departments at University of Illinois and University of Alabama; President of AAA.

Don Belding - V-P, Lord & Thomas; Founder of Foote, Cone & Belding; Founder of War Advertising Council; directed Smoky Bear’s “Only YOU can prevent forest fires;” American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame.http://advertisinghall.org/members/member_bio.php?memid=536Sidney R. Bernstein - Senior editor, Advertising Age; defender and supporter of advertising education, attending and participating in all AAA conferences for many years, chastising business press for their failures to report on AAA or advertising education.http://advertisinghall.org/members/member_bio.php?memid=542Steuart H. Britt - Northwestern University, one of first psychologists to hold positions in both marketing and advertising departments; author of first consumer behavior textbook; a star in socio-psychological research.Philip W. Burton - Advertising Departments chair at Universities of Iowa and Syracuse; Advertising Federation of America Director; first Distinguished Advertising Educator named by the American Advertising Federation.http://www.hirons.com/tag/philip-ward-burton/

Les Carlson - Professor and holder of the Nathan Gold Distinguished Professorship in Marketing at the University of Nebraska. Past President and Treasurer of AAA and former editor of the Journal of Advertising; recipient of the AAA Outstanding Contribution to Research Award and the AAA Kim Rotzoll Award for Advertising Ethics and Social Responsibility.

George Clark - New York University; first Treasurer of the AAAJohn Crawford - Advertising Department Chair at Michigan State University; AAA president; first Chair of the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.Barton Cummings - Compton Advertising CEO, chairman of the executive committee; chairman emeritus of Saatchi & Saatchi; chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.http://advertisinghall.org/members/member_bio.php?memid=590S. Watson Dunn - Professor and second Head of Advertising Department after Sandage retirement, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; first advertising graduate of doctoral communications program at UIUC; president of AAA.For archived papers, see: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=310Ronald J. Faber - Professor, University of Minnesota; editor of Journal of Advertising,Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=__XPi8MAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sraJames S. Fish - Advertising director at General Mills; faculty at University of St. Thomas; American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame; Facilitated merger of the Advertising Association of the West and Advertising Federation of America.http://advertisinghall.org/members/member_bio.php?memid=624Vernon Fryburger - Northwestern University; seventh President of the AAA.Stephen A. Greyser - Professor, Harvard University; President of AAA.http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6467Melvin S. Hattwick - Advertising director of Conoco Oil Company; Advertising Federation of America president & important supporter for establishment of the AAA. Colorado State University faculty.